I’ve always thought that tire standardization would be a great way to help series limit costs. If the powers that be could homologate high-speed tires and make them production tires that could be bought and mounted by the general public and require that F1 (and other) bodies use them as the only tires available, that…

I have to say that implicating the US military as being interested in Greenland enough to bother the president to ask to buy it is rather, ummm, unfortunate. Even if the US military was deeply interested enough to make inquiries, it’s a pretty good case that even the DoD and associated branches recognize there’s not…

Koch Bros. initiative under the covers in order to make available more oil exploration.

Pathetic. Why would 50+ rich donors who have access to the best money people in the world pay more attention to that idiot Mulvaney and the Trumpkins than their existing economic advisors?

This is true if 1) you’re in the snow belt or 2) you’re living in the dirt. In either case, if you really live on AWD all the time, you’re paying the overhead for all that because you really need it. It’s not really a choice just as people who have large families have to have more cargo space. And if you are in that…

And yet, they drive differently. Same platform perhaps but distribution is different and that makes a difference. And personally I find SUVs, even something like a Lexus RX which has a short wheelbase, less forgiving, feelwise, in a high speed turn than an Odyssey. Similarly, driving a Yukon to me is a hair off of…

No.

Having just returned from Europe, your point is correct. I was talking to a guy in Gibraltar and he loved coming over to the US because he could get a big car with a V8 and cheap gas. So he loved having a Chevy SUV with aV8 as a rental. He wanted to come to California as his next stop and I wanted to tell him to not…

Just here in the US. Over in Europe, they have these most excellent shorties that would do really well over here except in the power range. But otherwise, they’re great in the city, have a lot of room, and are quite maneuverable

DT, you should check out the ones further south in Vietnam or Cambodia. They get really, ummm, basic. I’ll look for my photos of the ones I saw but really, they looked almost entirely diy or local gadget shop engineered. OTOH, the big one I saw near Angkor Wat was very large and the driver stood at my waist height.…

I just got back from Spain driving a v220d. This looks basically the same with a slightly updated interior. However, I can tell you that MB learned a minimal amount from owning 19.9% of Chrysler which surprises me somewhat. For sure, the MB is a fine driving van. However, if one is going to lug 4 kids and 2 adults…

Lol, my best friend’s dad back in the ‘80s bought a china blue 300d. Hated the seats in it the instant I sat in it. Felt like school bus seats with a fine leather. He lived up in the hills so it was always hilarious to watch that thing smoke away when they had to try to up that grade. Then he traded it in for a Jag…

That QPorte reminds me on one that used to be down the street from me; saw it occasionally but it seemed to be in the shop the rest of the time. It was a beautiful car then and still is now. Sounded great when it ran. As for that Merc #1, reminds me of Europe where all too often, I saw them being used for towing…

“I say, Bond, would you rather have the Midget?”

Wait a sec, does this mean we get Lucas Electrics to go with it? Lair of The Prince of Darkness! It all makes sense now; is the secret weapon an electric smoke collector? I can see it all happening :

Driving in the EU right now with a MB v220d van. One thing to remember is that Euro driving etiquette is quite different than in the US. They may drive 80 or faster but 99.99% of the time they’ll be doing it in the “fast” lane. Almost to a T, you will never find a typical EU driver going that speed in the slow lane.…

Hmmm, does it work with Bobafetts trainers? And wasn’t there some other fairly popular hacktool for Diablo 1 that let you crank up your weapons and armor? I can remember what it looked like but don’t recall the name.....

Naw, what she’d do is convert the barrel into a champagne shooter and the smoke grenade launchers into cake tubes....

Aww, too bad they bussed and choppered you. There’s some interesting roads out there that the V-10 would sound and feel really good on.....

Sounds like an American take on the Flannan Lighthouse mystery.